We drove along the seaside of the Seto Inland Sea to Mitsukue. I wrote about this village before. This village is known as the place for the military drill of the attack on Pearl Harbour. When this air attack was conducted, five small 2-men submarines were ready for suicide attacks. If some military vessels came out of the bay, they were supposed to attack them. Ten young men (two for each submarine) went on the mission and only one was rescued from a stranded submarine with a mechanical problem of the compass. The rest of the nine people were missing in action. They are honored here as heros. The monumet is for them.
The second picture is of Mitsukue Bay. You can see a ship of the Japanese Coast Guard in the center of the picture. The role of this ship is as a lookout for a terror campaign against the Ikata Atomic Power Plant, which is about 10 kilometers away to the east from here.
- (Vocabulary)
- terror campaign テロ活動
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